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Photo: Reinhard Dirscherl / Getty Images Archaeologists Thought These Cannibalistic Ancient Humans Ate Children. They Were Only Half Right.
So many discoveries around ancient kids suffering horrors lately.
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Photo: ullstein bild / Getty Images More Than 2,000 Volunteers Are Excavating a 240-Million-Year-Old Monster
It’s an extraordinary effort for an extraordinary fossil.
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Photo: Daniel Rosengren / PLoS One 21 Scientists Just Discovered a New Monkey Species Hiding in the Congo Rainforest
The monkey is so unique-looking that the oversight feels almost embarrassing in hindsight.
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Photo: Andrew Francis Wallace/Toronto Star via Getty Images Scientists Discovered a Dinosaur That Looks Like Zuul From ‘Ghostbusters’
The large ankylosaurid specimen was 20 inches long and weighed more than 5,000 pounds
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Photo: CoreyFord / Getty Images A Megalodon Fossil Lost for Nearly 30 Years Just Confirmed the Ancient Shark’s Terrifying Size
It’s bigger than you’re thinking.
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Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images Famously Ugly Goblin Sharks Filmed Alive in Their Deep-Sea Habitat for the First Time
This new footage has helped scientists observe much deeper below the surface than previously known.
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Photo: TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images Drinking a Ton of Hard Seltzer Can Land You in the Hospital With This Newly Identified Disorder
Doctors have seen something similar with heavy beer drinkers since the 1980s.
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Photo: Tim Bird / Getty Images Scientists Just Discovered Half-a-Billion-Year-Old Evidence of Animals Having Sex
Earthlings started getting it on even earlier than we thought!
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Photo: aire images / Getty Images Scientists Figured Out How to Make Body Armor Out of Silkworm Silk
The super-strong silk can withstand ballistic impacts.